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J. K. Rowling

"The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth."

Source : "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

J. K. Rowling

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“For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.”
“I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.”
“If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.”
“I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.”

Source : Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.
“The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.”
“That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.”
“You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.”

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